I gain weight by eating healthy????????????
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courtneyfabulous wrote: »Sorry but none of what you listed sounds like healthy eating... skipping meals? Chinese food? Pizza? Are you even counting calories at all? Or paying attention to your macronutrients?
By the way it IS very possible to gain weight truly eating healthy foods if the amount of calories is too high. It's also counterproductive to be skipping meals and eating so little sometimes interspersed with days eating too much and very unheslthy- that's how you crash your metabolism and then gain weight when you binge.
Please try to lose weight slowly with a proper daily calorie goal, regular meals, and exercise.
Do not weigh daily- daily fluctuations in weight mostly have to do with water retention/hydration, not actual fat loss.
Or, alternatively, do weigh daily - if you can manage to stay calm and not stress about random fluctuations - and you'll eventually learn what things trigger your own body's weight fluctuations.
I like to weigh daily. Over time, it kind of takes the mystery and fear out of the equation, by revealing the natural ways your body operates. The number on the scale becomes . . . just a number, data that can help you meet long-term goals.12 -
reneesexton9 wrote: »You can lose weight by doing these things
Eating a lot of processed foods and too much sugar will not make you healthy though.
Like many things in life.... it depends.
If you are 100+ lbs overweight and you lose 100lbs eating deep fried mars bars I am willing to put a couple of hundred that you will be healthier than you were 100lbs previously.(*assuming you're not already a dietetic, and no I don't recommend deep fried mars bars as a way of eating and would suggest that anyone who eats them limits them to a few times a year or less!)
If you are BMI 23.5 looking to lose 5 lbs to fit your bikini better, you might benefit more from making healthier food choices.
So, first things first.
Depending on where you're at.9 -
courtneyfabulous wrote: »Sorry but none of what you listed sounds like healthy eating... skipping meals? Chinese food? Pizza? Are you even counting calories at all? Or paying attention to your macronutrients?
By the way it IS very possible to gain weight truly eating healthy foods if the amount of calories is too high. It's also counterproductive to be skipping meals and eating so little sometimes interspersed with days eating too much and very unheslthy- that's how you crash your metabolism and then gain weight when you binge.
Please try to lose weight slowly with a proper daily calorie goal, regular meals, and exercise.
Do not weigh daily- daily fluctuations in weight mostly have to do with water retention/hydration, not actual fat loss.
Or, alternatively, do weigh daily - if you can manage to stay calm and not stress about random fluctuations - and you'll eventually learn what things trigger your own body's weight fluctuations.
I like to weigh daily. Over time, it kind of takes the mystery and fear out of the equation, by revealing the natural ways your body operates. The number on the scale becomes . . . just a number, data that can help you meet long-term goals.
Yeah this. I weigh daily and i find it super interesting. Helps me learn my body. Besides if i weighed on a great day one week and a bad day the next itd pretty much hide all loss and id be heartbroken6 -
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »i weigh sometimes in the day and night.. i love watching it go up and down lol..
I need a life lol
Haha! I used to weigh about 3 pounds more at night than the next morning, sometimes even 4 pounds! Now that I've lost some weight it's less drastic- more like 2 pounds, sometimes 3.
(Can you tell I do that too? And more often than I'd like to admit)0 -
Seereneesexton9 wrote: »Sorry but that's just not the case. Have you actually looked at the nutrition panel of these foods??
Yes. And calories are all that matter for weight loss.4 -
It actually does matter what those calories are made up of. But I guess being healthy doesn't count, just weight loss?? Where are you getting your facts from? Obviously nothing to do with nutrition.0
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reneesexton9 wrote: »Sorry but that's just not the case. Have you actually looked at the nutrition panel of these foods??
The biggest draw for me on the nutrition panel, besides calories, is the big list of...you know...nutrients. Turns out they're in everything.10 -
Guess it doesn't matter if you're healthy or not then?
Yeah, less calories are important but skinny does not equal healthy and I'm obviously in the wrong chat if it's just weight loss and no consideration for people's health. So, guess I'm done. 2 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »nutrition and weight loss are two different things
you can get nutrition losing, gaining or maintaining, but you can only lose weight by less calories.. no matter what they are made of.
Spot on.0 -
reneesexton9 wrote: »Guess it doesn't matter if you're healthy or not then?
Yeah, less calories are important but skinny does not equal healthy and I'm obviously in the wrong chat if it's just weight loss and no consideration for people's health. So, guess I'm done.
Where did you read that?5 -
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »reneesexton9 wrote: »Guess it doesn't matter if you're healthy or not then?
Yeah, less calories are important but skinny does not equal healthy and I'm obviously in the wrong chat if it's just weight loss and no consideration for people's health. So, guess I'm done.
What one person deems healthy may be completely different for someone else, that is for the person losing the weight to decide.. Personally i find it kind of annoying when you get those pumped up clean eaters coming in, guns blazing going "NO PROCESSED FOODZ NO TAKE OUT NO JUNK" "IF YOU CANT PRONOUNCE THE INGREDIENTS DONT EAT IT" ... and so on..
None of those people ever explain just what "Processed" means.
They might mumble something about "Preservatives", but then look blank when you say, "oils, fats, salt, and vinegar are all preservatives, and are supposed to be essential or good for you".3 -
It's perfectly normal for weight to skip around like that. What is not normal, though, is how little you're eating on they days you're being "good!" You need to giver you body enough to sustain itself. It's likely you're not, and that's why you end up eating on "bad" (there are really no bad) foods.
Plug your info into MFP and make it your goal to eat the number of calories it gives you.
If the daily weight numbers stress you out, then only weight once a week-hide the scale if you have to.2 -
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »processed is such a vast term.. like.. seriously, i have things to do in my day i am not gonna go sit in a farm field and dig my food up out of the ground.. im gonna buy that breaded chicken burger from the grocery store for a quick bite that some hairy sweaty man who probably showered 4 days ago is operating the machine that chicken rolled out on and into a box so my store could cook it and throw it on a bun and sell it to me for 2.47. No matter how many unpronounceable ingredients are in it.
sarcasm aside though.. lol
There are so many things processed in many ways..
its amazing im still alive eating food... no longer diabetic anymore, lost all my weight, have great blood work results.. just counted calories though.. somehow this healthy and nutrition thing seemed to just fall into place with that as i went.
You know that breaded chicken doesn't grow out in the farmer's fields, right?
/sarcasmjennifer_417 wrote: »It's perfectly normal for weight to skip around like that. What is not normal, though, is how little you're eating on they days you're being "good!" You need to giver you body enough to sustain itself. It's likely you're not, and that's why you end up eating on "bad" (there are really no bad) foods.
Plug your info into MFP and make it your goal to eat the number of calories it gives you.
If the daily weight numbers stress you out, then only weight once a week-hide the scale if you have to.
This is why I asked about calorie goal.0 -
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »
You know that breaded chicken doesn't grow out in the farmer's fields, right?
/sarcasm
...Oh Dang it...
Well i guess i better give that up.. processed foods are just awful..
Also i guess i should of said ORGANIC farm fields.. cause you know.. pesticides.. those are bad too.. im awful at this.. where is that quiz that tells me when im gonna die.. it's probably gonna be tomorrow lol
No, to find breaded chicken, you have to go hunting in the northern territories of Canada. They can only be found near the fields of margarine tubs. Be careful not to startle the margarine tubs, they will squeal and scare off the breading, and you will be left with just plain chicken.
Happy hunting!18 -
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Lol... be vwery vwery qwiet... im hunting brweaded chicken!
That's the spirit! :laugh:3 -
annabellechipps wrote: »I understand that weight is fluid. I do not understand my weight. I skip breakfast and lunch almost everyday, which helps with the weight loss. Two days ago i ate only grilled vegetables at dinner time and nothing else. I weighed 128.7. Yesterday i didn't eat breakfast or lunch but i did eat a bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, three pieces of pizza, and some cake. For some reason, i only weighed 128.2. Today, i ate a large ceaser salad for lunch and a tiny bit of chinese food for dinner and some wheat thins. For some reason i ended up weighing 129.4????
@annabellechipps, reading between the lines of your post, I'm concerned (interfering granny-type li'l ol' lady that I am
). So, I'm going to interfere just a little beyond the question that you asked explicitly.
You sound like you'd like to lose some weight, but you seem to be eating in a somewhat disorganized way.
One day, it sounds like you had grilled veggies and nothing else. Veggies are a nutritious food, in general, but usually don't have much protein, and - depending on how you grilled them - may also not have much fat. Protein and healthy fats are important to eat daily, in order to get good nutrition, stay strong, and feel full & satisfied. It can also be difficult to eat enough of just veggies - because they're low-cal and high-volume - to get sufficient calories to fuel our day.
When we under-fuel, sometimes our bodies over-react and make us very crave-y - we can get in a "restrict then binge" cycle, which isn't helpful for either weight loss or nutrition.
Yesterday, you waited until evening to eat again - which can be fine if it helps you manage your appetite. But then it sounds like you ate quite a few calories, but still may've ended up a bit light on protein, and this time maybe light on veggies as well (depending what was on the pizza, and how much peanut butter you ate). This particular list of foods also sounds like the kind of thing that lots of us eat if we've under-fueled previously, and have cravings for familiar, comforting treat foods.
Today, you were seemingly back on a more restrictive calorie level, heavy on the veggies, but possibly again a little light on protein (depending on what was on the Caesar salad and in the Chinese food, of course).
I'm wondering whether it might work better to eat a bit more every day, try to balance out some good veggies, protein and healthy fats in each day, along with a bit of some treat food just to keep the process fun, while fitting all of this into your daily calorie goal? (That's the sort of approach that helped me lose a third of my body weight, and reach a healthy goal weight, in a bit less than a year.)
I think that kind of approach might be more sustainable and effective for you, too, than thinking of foods as "good" and "bad", and trying to cut way, way back on your eating to lose weight quickly, as it sounds as if you may be doing.
I'd just like to see you stay strong and healthy while you lose weight!12 -
Shame OP never came back...1
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If you had eaten the same thing in the same weights, you will still have not been the exact same weight.
Too many things effect weight for you to track it like that.2 -
annabellechipps wrote: »I skip breakfast and lunch almost everyday, which helps with the weight loss. Two days ago i ate only grilled vegetables at dinner time and nothing else. I weighed 128.7. Yesterday i didn't eat breakfast or lunch but i did eat a bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, three pieces of pizza, and some cake. For some reason, i only weighed 128.2. Today, i ate a large ceaser salad for lunch and a tiny bit of chinese food for dinner and some wheat thins. For some reason i ended up weighing 129.4????
This doesn't sound healthy to me.
What is your calorie intake?
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I think you need a more balanced diet that gives you enough food to be satisfied whilst still remaining in a calorie deficit.
Calculate your recommended daily intake for weight loss based on your age, height, weight and activity level (there are many online calculators which can do this for you - I recommend IIFYM.com) and hit these numbers daily. You will see amazing results - I promise you that! Having your daily calorie intake too low can actually cause your body to burn muscle for fuel (you don't want that!), and if you are in an extreme deficit for a long period of time it can also wreck havoc on your metabolism.
Restricting and bingeing is an ongoing, painful cycle that you really do not want to get yourself caught up in.
As everybody else has mentioned, weight does fluctuate daily. You'd be better off weighing yourself once per week/fortnight.
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you dont gain weight immediately it doesnt work like that...3
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When you skip meals your body stores anything it can as fat incase its being starved again.
Google, why I'm not losing weight when I eat less. There's hundreds of articles
No. Plenty of us here do IF and only eat 1-2 times a day. Meal timing/frequency doesn't matter for weight loss, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals does.
The same goes for what kinds of foods you're eating-in terms of weight loss it doesn't matter what kinds of foods you're eating, what matters is that you're at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals.
And OP- your weight will fluctuate due to all sorts of things, not related to fat gains, on a daily basis. Being up a bit on the scale one day doesn't mean you're actually gaining fat. These fluctuations are totally normal. Focus on your monthly weight trends, and not daily or even weekly ones, to get a better picture of where you're at.1
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